Resources/Recursos

WIDA’s professional learning is a transformative curriculum grounded in principles of adult learning theory and designed to empower educators in their work with multilingual learners and ensure that the professional learning opportunities are relevant, practical, and accessible. WIDA’s Learning Philosophy for professional learning curriculum draws from foundational principles of adult learning, focusing on contextualization and relevance, self-direction and autonomy, and collaboration and reflection.

Released October 2025

Este resumen informativo de WIDA presenta explicar, el tercer uso clave del lenguaje del Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico de lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE). Explicar permite a los y las estudiantes desarrollar habilidades del lenguaje que ayudan a su público a entender el cómo y el porqué de un concepto. Este el tercero de cuatro boletines informativos de WIDA sobre los usos clave del lenguaje del Marco DALE: relatar, informar, explicar y argumentar.

Released October 2025

This WIDA Snapshot introduces relatar, the first Key Language Use of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE), WIDA’s Spanish language development framework. Relatar helps educators provide a purpose for language use as students develop their ability to describe personal experiences and stories. This is the first in a four-part series of WIDA Snapshots on the Key Language Uses of the Marco DALE: relatar, informar, explicar and argumentar.

Released October 2025

This WIDA Snapshot introduces argumentar, the fourth Key Language Use of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE), WIDA’s Spanish language development framework. Argumentar helps students develop the language necessary for critical thinking, evidence-based discourse and reasoning. This is the last in a four-part series of WIDA Snapshots on the Key Language Uses of the Marco DALE: relatar, informar, explicar and argumentar.

Released October 2025

This WIDA Snapshot introduces informar, the second Key Language Use of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE), WIDA’s Spanish language development framework. Informar supports students’ ability to convey factual information in a clear and organized way. This is the second in a four-part series of WIDA Snapshots on the Key Language Uses of the Marco DALE: relatar, informar, explicar and argumentar.

Released October 2025

This WIDA Snapshot introduces explicar, the third Key Language Use of the Marco de los estándares del desarrollo auténtico del lenguaje español de WIDA (Marco DALE), WIDA’s Spanish language development framework. Explicar allows students to develop language skills to help their audience comprehend the how and why of a concept. This is the third in a four-part series of WIDA Snapshots on the key language uses of the Marco DALE: relatar, informar, explicar and argumentar.

Released October 2025

Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) is an overarching term used to describe a diverse subset of learners among the larger multilingual learner population. Knowing and understanding your multilingual learners identified as SLIFE is essential for ensuring their success in your teaching and learning context and their new communities at large. This Focus Bulletin explains how multilingual learners identified as SLIFE are showing up in our classrooms and what can educators do to support their unique needs.

Released October 2025

Educators of bi/multilingual learners engage in multiple roles within their school communities to advocate for student success. When educators engage in research practices, they gain a deeper understanding of their students’ cultural backgrounds and academic and emotional needs. This Focus Bulletin features some approaches to encourage practitioners to engage in research more intentionally, not only to inform their classroom practice but to contribute to the field and elevate their dual roles as practitioners and academics and this way honor and value their pracademic identity.

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Released October 2025

Discover how two teachers co-plan a lesson for multilingual learners with disabilities. This video shows how they adapt a museum scavenger hunt into a writing assignment and anticipate student need by planning strategies, such as using graphic organizers, sentence starters, and prompting students to make personal connections.

Released October 2025

Learn practical strategies to help multilingual learners with disabilities become more independent. This video shows how one teacher uses technology, explicit modeling, and visual aids to make lessons accessible, foster deeper learning, and connect to students' lives.

Released October 2025

Learn how one educator makes lessons more inclusive. This video explains how she used graphic organizers, technology, and visual aids to help a multilingual student with disabilities write and present a personal narrative, gaining confidence and independence.

Released October 2025

Collaborating across disciplines is key to meeting the needs of multilingual learners with disabilities. This video explains why it’s important for teachers and specialists to work together to ensure multilingual students with disabilities receive the right support to have their unique needs met.

Released October 2025

This video encourages a shift to more empathetic and responsive teaching and offers advice for educators on building an inclusive environment by honoring students’ identities and personal experiences.

Released October 2025

Who belongs on a student support team? This handout simplifies the roles of each required member, including parents. Read it to understand each person’s vital role in creating a successful Individual Education Program for a multilingual learner with disabilities.

For more context around this handout, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Use this handout to explore student intersections of language, disability, home, community, and academics. Engage with the guiding questions collaboratively with colleagues and caregivers to inform instructional planning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

Discover federal legislation and regulations that ensure every student, regardless of language or disability, gets a fair education. This flyer simplifies federal regulations, helping to understand schools’ responsibilities and advocate for students’ rights.

Released October 2025

Building strong family-school partnerships is key to student success. This handout shows how one teacher collaborates with a student’s mother, gathering insights about her child’s strengths and needs to build a supportive and inclusive classroom.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This handout provides ideas for applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in your classroom. It offers strategies to help all students, including multilingual learners with disabilities, participate in meaningful and challenging learning.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This tool provides practical, ready-to-use strategies from the WIDA and UDL frameworks to help you create accessible and engaging lessons for multilingual learners with disabilities.

For more context around this tool, please visit the Supporting Multilingual Learners With Disabilities page.

Released October 2025

This report template for action research serves as a guide to share action research results. It may be adapted and modified according to the contextual needs of each pracademic. The template is an authorized adaptation of “Writing a Report of Action Research/Teacher Research,” by Kathy Short, 2018.

This template is meant to be used in tandem with The Pracademics Pathway to Support Multilingual Learners Focus Bulletin.

Released October 2025